Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet, wrote, “Once I was sitting
on the steps near the gate of David’s Citadel and I put down my two heavy
baskets beside me. A group of tourists
stood there, surrounding their guide, and I became the point of reference. ‘You see that man over there with the
baskets? A little to the right of his
head there’s an arch from the Roman period.’
‘A little to the right of his head?’ responded the tourists,
‘but he’s moving, he’s moving.’
I said to myself, redemption will come only when they are
told: ‘Do you see that arch from the Roman period? It doesn’t matter, but near it, a little to
the left and then down a bit, there’s a man who has just bought fruit and
vegetables for his family.”
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